Chancellor is latest senior Tory to refuse to back home secretary over remarks on police and protests

Jeremy Hunt has become the most senior member of the government to distance himself from Suella Braverman, as pressure continues to mount on the prime minister to sack his embattled home secretary.

The chancellor said he would not have used the kind of inflammatory language used by Braverman in an article this week in the Times, in which she argued the police were biased in the way they deal with different protests.

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